International News

Jan 13, 2019

6:53PM

Israel carried out air strike in Syria at weekend: Benjamin Netanyahu

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has confirmed that Israel carried out an air strike in Syria at the weekend.

In a cabinet meeting today, he said that Israel's air force attacked Iranian warehouses containing weapons in the Damascus international airport. According to the Syrian air defences, only a ministry of transport warehouse at Damascus airport was hit.

Israel has pledged to prevent Iran from entrenching itself militarily in Syria, where it is backing President Bashar al-Assad's regime.